AN independent report into little Chloe's terrible death says none of the professionals involved with her family could have known she was at risk from her deranged mother.

But it suggests that social services, mental health teams and police could have worked more closely to share information on the family's case.

Now mum Aisling Murray has been jailed for life for stabbing her daughter 52 times with a kitchen knife - and Bolton, Salford and Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust has ordered a major review of child welfare policies.

An internal health trust inquiry launched after Chloe's death in June forced bosses to provide new child protection training for staff and a child welfare policy has been set up to monitor children whose relatives are mentally ill.

Tory MP Graham Brady, who represents Altrincham and Sale West, is keen to see their handling of the case fully investigated. He said: "This clearly underlines the importance of mental health services continually reviewing procedures and ensuring that public safety is put at the head of their priorities."

Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority is now launching an independent inquiry into the blunders made by mental health staff, social services and police, who failed to consult each other about the 23-year-old mother's behaviour.

Yesterday, the Manchester Evening News lifted the lid on an earlier report into the role of Children's Social Services, which decided Chloe was not at immediate risk, even though her mother had a history of mental illness, had been sectioned and kept in hospital for up to a year.

According to the independent Trafford Area Child Protection Committee's report, there were a series of warnings about Murray's behaviour and the family called police and mental health teams 24 hours before Chloe's death on Thursday, June 26, when Murray became violent.

The next afternoon, it is claimed, headteacher Sheila Bailey, of Victoria Park Infants, called again when the 23-year-old mother caused a disturbance in school. But an assessment of the event was, according to the report, classed as a "low priority" by social services who were only partly aware of the background.

Hours after the teacher's call, Murray stripped her daughter's bedroom of all fixtures and fittings, leaving the bed like an altar before viciously murdering Chloe.Trust chief executive Lezli Boswell has refused to take the blame for the decision to release Murray to the family home at Bradshaw Lane, Stretford, she shared with boyfriend David and her two children.

"This is a tragic incident which was impossible to have foreseen," she said. "We understand from information available at that time there was no reason to believe that Chloe was at risk, nor was her mother considered detainable under the Mental Health Act."

The Trafford Area Child Protection Committee's report also criticised the role of social services staff - author Robin Hughes was "surprised" Children's Social Services were only briefly involved with Aisling's mental condition.He has not blamed Trafford child protection staff, as there was no evidence Chloe's mother was not a loving, caring parent and a court would not have taken Chloe from her mother.

But he identified clear weaknesses and called for a review of child protection policies across police, social services and mental health teams.

The M.E.N. also learned that concerns about children's services in Trafford were raised in two previous reports.

Chairman of the Area Child Protection Committee, Mike Cooney, said: "We do know that things could have been done differently and that may have helped."